Most Popular Books by Ann Arnold

History of the Daughters of the American Revolution's first one hundred years.

From the earliest days of the cattle drives through town, Fort Worth embraced, if not with open arms, then certainly with an open palm, the profit and excitement of illegal entertainment.

In 1837, when Alexis Soyer was just twenty-five years old, he became head chef at the exclusive Reform Club in London on the condition that he be allowed to participate in the design of the kitchen. The result was a showplace filled with Soyer's clever inventions, such as the drainer and the multi-egg poacher, and it became the most talked about kitchen in all of Europe. Soyer quickly established himself as a star, but for all his flamboyance he was practical and large-hearted, cooking for the starving populace as well as the aristocracy, opening soup kitchens during the Irish potato famine, and teaching the army how to feed itself in the Crimean War. Filled with biographical detail and lively illustrations, The Adventurous Chef tells the story of a remarkable man who was determined to revolutionize the culinary world and who remains one of the greatest cooks of the nineteenth century.

On June 4, 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller set sail from Avacha Bay in Siberia on the St. Peter, under the command of Vitus Bering. The crew was bound for America on the last leg of an expedition whose mission was to explore, describe, and map Russia’s vast lands from the Ural Mountains across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and possibly lay claim to the northwest coast of America – if they could find it, for no European had ever reached America by this route. Officially, Steller was the ship’s mineralogist, but in practice he was its doctor, minister, and naturalist as well. Appointed to the expedition in 1737 by the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, he was sworn to secrecy concerning any discoveries. Making judicious use of Steller’s richly detailed journals and liberal use of illustrations and maps, Ann Arnold allows the reader to join Steller on this fascinating voyage and its final dangerous mission, which left half the crew dead and the rest suffering from scurvy.

Fort Worth physicians fought and overcame enemies too small to be seen with the naked eye. This is their story. In 1853 settler Julian Field needed a doctor. Carroll M. Peck responded and became the first civilian doctor at the old fort. From the first he and others rode horseback, and later drove Model Ts, as they ministered to the sick. Along the way they established a health care system that drew patients from across the state and nation. Nuns came from San Antonio to create St. Joseph Hospital, thus replacing kitchen table surgeries with well-equipped operating rooms. From these humble beginnings, dedicated and inovative men and women saved lives and endeared themselves to grateful patients. History is more than dates and battles. It is the chronicle of people and their impact on the lives of others. This book salutes medical pioneers, past and present.

A children's alphabet book for Christmas, with all proceeds going to St Helena Hospice, Colchester.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parent trainings on the use of positive behavior support techniques and the behavior of their adolescents. Four parents participated in four trainings across one month. All parents had an adolescent with an attention deficit disorder between the ages of fourteen to eighteen and were being served in a resource specialist program. All parents had no prior experience with positive reinforcement parenting training prior to the start of the study. Results showed that the adolescents' behaviors improved throughout the course of the trainings. Parents' knowledge and understanding about their adolescent also improved as did their application of positive reinforcement.

Georgina the duck just wants to have fun!